Would suit the theme of 'teenage angst / challenges faced by teenagers' The theme of choices or decisions.
Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel Fattah
Letters from the Coffin Trenches
Ken Catran
Montana 1948
Larry Watson
The Running Man
Michael Gerard Bauer
The Raging Quiet
Sherryl Jordan
Tomorrow when the War Began
John Marsden
Letters from the Inside
John Marsden
Out on the Edge
Anna MacKenzie
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer
Place this in non-fiction list, I think Night by Elie Weisel is another... - there could be others
Gangsta Rap
Benjamin Zephania
Night
Elie Wiesel
Genesis
Berbard Beckett
Feed
M.T. Anderson
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
Destroying Avalon
Kate McCaffrey
The Simple Gift
Stephen Herrick
Noughts and Crosses
Malorie Blackman
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Swim the Fly
Don Calame
Brilliantly funny... but read first to check suitability.
Going Bovine
The promo said if you liked Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll love this book. I do and I didn’t but still, I couldn’t put it down. I should have known from the beginning there was no happy ending: the back cover blurb tells me the main character has the incurable mad cow’s disease.
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
The book which I’m passing around my senior students. I’m giving it to my friends. I’m recommending it to the creative writing class I teach. Why? Firstly, the innovative and quirky writing.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Animal Farm
In the Name of the Father
Of Mice and Men
On the theme of choices or decisions. George's decision to shoot Lennie if you wanted something tried and true.
Water in the Blood
Alan Bunn
Looking for Alibrandi
Walking Naked
Gathering Light
Thousand Splendid Suns
A Cup of Tea
Mansfield
My Sister's Keeper
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
High student interest and wide range of themes to explore.
Jolt
Bernard Beckett
Trash
Andy Mulligan
Better suited to Year 9!
Kid scavenges for a living through the rubbish dumps of Manila finding cash and corruption. A hoot.
Night
Elie Wiesel
I was surprised at how my Year 11 boys (quite a mixed level class) liked and understood Night by Elie Wiesel. Seem to have done okay, too, with some nice surprise M's and E's. Externals in the lap of the gods, and all that ... grain of salt ...
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe
The characters have many of the characteristics of vampires. My Year 12s have liked studying it once we get underway but it does take a little prompting.
Kid scavenges for a living through the rubbish dumps of Manila finding cash and corruption. A hoot.